“Until lions tell their tale,

the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter”

African Proverb

To “establish justice” both sides of the story must be told.  The link below is just one of many such storys that we all must learn to become “Just human beings”

http://www.hulu.com/watch/93209/500-years-later

www.imtd.org

The Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy (IMTD) is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1992 by Ambassador John W. McDonald and Dr. Louise Diamond. The mission of IMTD is to promote a systems-based approach to peacebuilding and to facilitate the transformation of deep-rooted social conflict through education, conflict resolution training and communication.

INTRODUCTION

PART I 

Ambassador John W. McDonald, Chairman & CEO of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy discusses the utility of multi-track diplomacy in conflict resolution and peacebuilding around the world with Dr. Lynn Sandra Kahn, a psychologisy at the Federal Aviation Administration.

PART II

PART III

PART IV

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PART V

Ambassador John W. McDonald discusses what elements are critical to success when designing a track II style intervention in a conflict zone.

PART VI

Ambassador John W. McDonald discusses the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy’s role in peace-building in Liberia

PART VII

Ambassador John W. McDonald shares some final thoughts with Dr. Kahn.

www.imtd.org

Jamie Leigh Jones -- KBR Gang Rape Keith Olberman Countdown

Jamie Leigh Jones -- KBR Gang Rape ABC 20/20 Report

Senator Al Franken attempting to address the gang rape of Jaimie Lee Jones a KBR employee in Iraq in 2005

Ed Schultz MSNBC -- Republicans are Defending Rapist’s and Sexism

The Young Turks

Republicans Oppose Al Franken’s Law on Protecting Victims of Gang Rape

http://www.theyoungturks.com

30 Republican Senators voted against Al Frankens’ anti-rape amendment

How BAZAAR

http://www.republicansforrape.org

Support Jaimie’s efforts to stop

RAPE

http://www.jamiesfoundation.org

Jane contacted me and ordered two posters from the Robert Shetterly portrait series of  “Americans who tell the truth”. From that order came a superlatively delightful three + hour conversation that was enlightining and hopeful. I would like to share some of the fruit of that gathering in the form of some of Jane’s past and present work.

Health care (circa John Edwards) yet even just as relevant today

1776 all over again

Jane’s blog

A

“non-party public interest movement.”

http://solidarityfordemocracy.blogspot.com

AND

ONE LAST FINAL PIECE

Representative Alan Grayson of Florida’s 8th District:

As you watch this series of what are contemporaneously straight forward and bold presentations of the facts in this inanely argued, but extremely critical “Health Care”  issue, one can only hope that the rest of the country would send to congress other “Corporate Free” House and Senate representatives.

I do think his argument should be “Corporate Owned” Representatives -- not just the Republicans -- who’s obvious goal is to destroy this country by destroying the people.

Clip #1

1. “DON’T GET SICK”
2. “IF YOU DO GET SICK”
3. “DIE QUICKLY”

Clip 2

44,789

AMERICANS DIE EVERY YEAR

Veterans health care is the best health care system in the country and is a government run program. The rest of us, however do not deserve a good health care system we get insurance.

On June 15th 2009 Neal Boortz proposed the following:

1. “Nobody living in Section 8 housing should be allowed to vote”.
2. “If you’re Elderly and living in Section 8 housing you’ve don a piss-poor job of planning your life, no vote for you”.
3. “Every damn one of these cities is a blue city, I’ll guaran-damn-tee you, meaning mostly Democrat”.
4. “So you bulldoze it, and you disperse a bunch of Obama voters”.
5. “It has great political future ramifications for the Republicans——hehehehe”.

You will find this about 3.4 minutes into the clip

Section 8 Housing?

Here is a great explanation of Section 8 Housing from www.howstuffworks.com at http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/real-estate/section-8-housing.htm

and from another great website www.ted.com

http://www.architectureforhumanity.org

I am left cold to the fact that in America such “Hurray for me the hell with you” folks have such an overpowering influence on the public discourse with no accountability or transparency to the fact that this is the top 5% “haves” mouthpiece using the “commons” (our public airwaves and infrastructure to attempt to crush the 95% “have nots” into complete destitution. They do this by attempting to control the policy making structure starting with the Town Clerk to the President, Military and Civil Servants of We the People.

The most sacred, important and vital part of our Republic is the security of our elections. Along with the bourgeoning prison populations in which the voter of this nation is lost, the illegal interference by 5 members of the US Supreme court in suspending elections in florida, thus a coup d’état, the electronic voting irregularities and unverifiability and now a spoken effort to push aside the poor.

This effort is sumed up below in the next clip on a speach given by Paul Weyrich the founder of the Heritage Foundation that is dedicated to destroying America by eliminating “Good Government” or the Goo-Goo affect.

 Well we are now destitute as a nation because of these sentiments that move people to some false sense of rightous indignation against there neighbors and friends. The sad truth is we fall sway to the “Those People” conversations and a state of disregard to the Constitution which is about Justice for all. Social, Civil, Economic, Environmental and Criminal Justice or we might best recognize these civil society requirments as “fair play”.

When we buy into and act upon such retoric Paul Weyrich, Neal Boortz and others espouse, which is really nothing but hate speach ,the end result is we all get dragged down. Presently America is like a football game being played without the rule book, the end result is a Hatchett fight. Our rule book is the Constitution of the United States of America, the Supreme Law of the Land. It is for me an “all for one and one for all” cooperative of compassion and community.

Witness the affects of hate base politics:

“US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive” by Tom Leonard in Flint Michigan http://www.telegraph.co.uk

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html

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A great piece to help explain why we are failing as a nation

for more info go to http://www.addictedtowar.com

HEALTH CARE CORPORATE STYLE

JUST SAY

YOUR FIRED!!!!!!!!!!

Listening to some common sense today on the Ed Schultz show http://www.bigeddieradio.com and Senator  Max Baucus of Montana  and healthcare was the conversation of the day.

As many callers engaged with big Ed on the subject the long and short of it was let’s stop playing with folks like Senator Baucus that are Bought and Payed for by the Corporations and Special Interests, have the finest healthcare we the people can provide, a  benefits package rivaling the wall street thugs and a life time pension.

I know some folks out here actually think calling and writing letters works. Sorry, not really, not with this crowd unless it is to say those two simple words.

JUST SAY THESE TWO SIMPLE WORDS

YOU’RE FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I called the Senators office and presented the following to his staff for his edification.

“Please pass on to the Senator to enjoy while he can the finest healthcare we the people can provide, a  benefits package rivaling the wall street thugs and a life time pension”

Cause next election cycle he is fired. This is a “Single Payer” healthcare country no matter how much he and the other “bought and paid for” congressmen don’t get it. Lobbying ( Bribery) is soon to be a thing of the past. You work for me, I am the boss and you have failed “We the People”.

So let’s not waste anymore time with these folks.

Just say to them:

YOU’RE FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a great primer and exercise in learning the Preamble to the Constitution